Korean-born bass-baritone. Came in 1990 from Seoul to Germany, where he continued his training at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe with Roland Hermann and in the singing class of Mitsuko Shirai/Hartmut Hצll at the college of music Karlsruhe. In 1992 he was winner at the ARD-Wettbewerb (broadcasting corporations competition) in Munich. He also won first prizes at the Robert Schumann competition in 1993 in Zwickau and at the Hugo Wolf competition in 1994 in Stuttgart.